Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take... - Henry James

"Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal."

"Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance."

"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."

"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."

"It's time to start living the life you've imagined."